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Sam
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I visited a customer yesterday that has a PC running Windows 2000 and a couple of DOS programs that someone years ago wrote for them to calculate costs for parts that they manufacture.

I'm quoting them on a new system running Windows 7 Pro, do we think they will be able to run these DOS programs still in W7?
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If they run on Win2k they'll probably run on Win7 x86
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Forgot to mention, it's W7 Pro x64...
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Just seen there's a program you can use called DOSBox which seems to fit the bill
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As long as the folder structure is right you'll probably get away with it working anyway.
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Just seen there's a program you can use called DOSBox which seems to fit the bill


It might work but again it emulates DOS and has it's issues. The only thing you can do is test the DOS program under each environment. You could obviously VirtualBox 2000 and nail down security.
Failing that, get them to upgrade the software

[Edited on 17-02-2012 by Dom]
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Use the virtual machine xp mode software from ms
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ask for a copy of the software and test it beforehand.
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use X3DOS
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
ask for a copy of the software and test it beforehand.


This.
Its only going to use standard DOS commands, I cant see why it wouldnt work.

 
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